(countable) A surname from Italian. / A village in Isola di Capo Rizzuto, Crotone, Calabria, Italy

The act of accusing. / (law) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law. / An allegation.

(now rare, archaic, chiefly in plural) A kidney. / The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.

(informal) Sufficiently exciting or absorbing to make one keep reading.